Anne Pyne Irving, Courtyard, 2026. Image courtesy of the artist
Matthew Freeman, Anne Pyne Irving, Tristan Ouweleen
Gallery 3
Opening Thursday 30 July, 2026, 6-8pm
Friday 31 July - Sunday 23 August
What is drawing if not a means of connecting? As observers and makers, drawing serves as a mode of sense-making, documentation, and discovery - each mark a personal notation of that which is significant.
Position/Trajectory interrogates the ideas and inscription of direction amidst the mercurial landscapes we are surrounded by. Three diverse drawing practices come together in pursuit of the fleeting, the fading, and the glimmering - witnessing, mapping, and attempting to suspend moments of magic.
“We want to draw the instant. That instant which strikes between two instants, that instant which flies into bits under its own blow, which has neither length, nor duration, only its own shattering brilliance, the shock of the passage from night to light” - Hélène Cixous
The poetic narrative emanating from the works interlaces motion, minds, landscapes, perceptions and potentials in a correspondence of lines. The series employs abstract and figurative drawing through crayon, ink, enamel, graphite and metal inlay. Position/Trajectory invites viewers to consider their paths, lenses and points of reference in order to open fertile new orientations.
Artist Bio’s
Anne Pyne Irving is a Providence-based artist and maker traditionally trained in jewelry and metalsmithing. At the University of the Arts’ Craft and Materials department in Philadelphia, she found a resonance with the technical precision, bodily choreography, and material demands specific to each craft medium. Following the closing of the department, she continued on to receive her BFA in Jewelry and Metalsmithing from the Rhode Island School of Design. Her practice is drawn towards precious metals and biological ephemera for their intrinsic themes of grasping, possession, potential, and desire.
Matt Freeman is an Australian artist who completed his MFA in Jewelry and Metalsmithing at RISD in 2025. His concentration is on the pursuit of the Sublime; a transcendent experience of the unknown, expressed through the transitory natures of stone. Matt’s post-graduate work has been reflecting on the systems, rationale and outliers of erosion through 2 dimensional practice to explore orientationlessness, extending the duration of a moment and the humorous task of depicting a rock.
Tristan Ouweleen is a Providence based artist who completed their BFA in Sculpture at RISD in 2024. Tristan aims to nestle their art in Providence’s history of radically naive work, creating monsters from paper mache and constantly scratching an intuitive itch to draw. An obsession with the awkward drives Tristan’s formal constructions and narrative proclivities as he interprets the world; natural, mundane, and magical through line and repetition